Country Pumpkins Photo Gallery

We are back home from an incredible farm tour in the Toronto area! We visited 7 farms over 2 days. WOW! These farmers are all doing a spectacular job. We learned so much, ate so many delicious treats, and had so much fun! We are always looking for new ways we can grow our farm and make it better. So thankful we were able to take this trip. Now it’s back to work here at the farm. There’s no place like home!❤️ #torontocanada #farmtour #bustour #canada #nafdma

Calling all crafters and vendors! We still have some spots available for our Fall Vendor Fair on Saturday, September 27th from 10am - 4pm! Here are some photos from last year’s event. This is always a well-attended and popular event during our Country Pumpkins fall festival. It’s a great environment of shopping and fall fun for the whole family! We’d love to see you here! Please help spread the word by sharing this with your crafy friends. Comment if you want the registration link!

Hey mamas! We know some of you are starting to think about planning fall birthday parties based on the emails and messages we’ve been receiving. GOOD NEWS, we’ve just opened up our calendar and you can reserve your party spot for this fall! Here are the details: 🎈For $40, you can reserve a space in our picnic shelter that seats 25 people for 2 hours. 🎈Time slots are available on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. 🎈This year we have created some discounted activity packages that you can add to your reservation if you’d like to go that route. 🎈Otherwise, you can purchase activity tickets like hayrides, Pumpkin Ridge play area, barrel train rides, and more here at the farm on the day of your party. Questions? Let us know in the comments! Booking link in our profile.

Today Matt planted our first 🌻sunflower field🌻 of the year! Trying no-till this time, so we’ll see how this goes. 🤞 If all goes well, these should be in bloom right around Opening Day, September 6th! #sunflowerfield

Look what we found in the zinnia field last night exactly 48 hours after planting! Tiny little zinnias are beginning to break through the soil already. Isn’t that amazing?! It’s such a miracle that in just 2 days this went from being a seed to a baby plant. Never gets old! 🎃Also, we have a pumpkin update.🎃 Matt spent hours cultivating pumpkin fields yesterday morning to help with weed control. It’s a never ending battle it seems! 🤣 While out there working, he determined that several fields of pumpkins had not come up well. He rounded up some helpers and got them replanted. Not fun to do the work twice, but hopefully these will do well and it will be worth it!

It was such a beautiful evening last night for planting some zinnias. Last year, we planted a small strip along our sunflower field on a whim and fell in LOVE! What a gorgeous, long-blooming flower! We decided right then and there that we needed a lot more zinnias this year. Last night we planted an area along the side of our Fairy Tale Trail out on Pumpkin Ridge. We can’t wait to see how these “California Giants” turn out! 🌼 We’ll be planting more behind the corn maze near our sunflowers too! 🌻 (The plan is to get our first field of sunflowers planted in the next 10 days or so.)

We have some super exciting news!!! We have been nominated as a Cincinnati Family Magazine top favorite in the PUMPKIN PATCH category! Voting is now open, and we need your help to take home the title of Reader’s Choice. Here’s how to vote: 1. Go to cincinnatifamilymagazine.com/2025-family-favorites 2. Find the “Favorite Pumpkin Patch” category. 3. Click on our name and submit your vote. You can vote once per day until August 15th! Thank you so much for your support!

Good morning! 🌽It’s corn maze cutting day here at the farm!!!🌽 Matt, Caleb Lipps, and Wesley Simpson were up and at it early this morning. They got the maze design marked out and are almost done mowing the paths already! Great work guys! 🗓️We are excited to share our maze with you this fall during our Country Pumpkins Fall Festival starting September 6th! #cornmaze #cornmazecuttingday #cornmazeadventures #fallfestival #pumpkinpatch #dryridgekentucky #northernkentucky #familyfarm

✨74 days✨ until OPENING DAY at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! See you September 6th when all this fall farm fun will be BACK! ❤️🎃❤️ #pumpkinpatch🎃 #pumpkinpatch2025 #fall #fallfun #fallfestival #cornmaze #pettingzoo #hayrides #upickpumpkins #familyfarm #northernkentucky #nky #cincinnati

Last week we did a test round at our paintball gallery to make sure we have the height right and to plan where to place our targets! We will have a total of 10 paintball guns and lots of great targets. Hit it with your best shot at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY this fall! #paintball #paintballshooting #paintballshootingrange #pumpkinfarm #fallfestival

Big thank you to this crew for helping us get some more pumpkins planted yesterday! It was hot, but we wanted to get them planted while we had some moisture in the ground. Just a few more fields to plant then we will be done! 🎃🎃🎃 We stagger our plantings so we have fresh pumpkins available throughout our fall season.

We took advantage of the longest day of the year and took a walk through the farm at 9:30 last night! It was so beautiful and peaceful. Happy Summer, friends! So far we’ve got the corn and 2/3 of the pumpkins planted. July will be a busy month planting sunflowers and zinnias, working on photo spots, and lots more to prepare for our fall season! (Also we’ll be hitting the road to tour some other farms and learn from them - more on that soon!)

Our corn is up and looking amazing with this hot weather and rain! We got a good soaking rain yesterday morning - about 1.3”! Corn was happy last night! We’re having to keep a close eye on this field so we can get our maze design cut before it grows too tall. #cornmaze #cornmaze🌽 #pumpkinfarm #fallfestival

🟠Paintball Update!🟠 After pausing on our paintball building for a couple months to get some other work done, Matt is back at it! ✅ Rock down and leveled. ✅ Half wall mostly completed. ✅ Figured out paintball gun height and placement. ✅ Cleared out some brush and limbs to prepare for adding targets!

🧶Calling all crafters and vendors!!!🎨 Registration for our 2025 Fall Vendor Fair is now LIVE! This year our event will be held on Saturday, September 27th from 10am - 4pm. ✏️Register at the link in our profile!✏️ In addition to our regular vendors, this fall we will be adding a Mini Makers section to our event. Young entrepreneurs ages 5 - 17 will be eligible to set up in this special area for a reduced fee. They must do the interacting with the customers, not the parents. A parent / adult must be present to supervise. Space is extremely limited!

Matt snapped this photo while planting pumpkins with Caleb and Hagen yesterday. That’s right, 2/3 of our pumpkins are planted!!! 🎃🎃🎃 We’ve got one more planting to go in about a week. #pumpkinfarm #paintingpumpkins #pumpkinpatch

Happy news! Matt got our 4 Acre Corn Maze planted yesterday along with the Kiddie Corn Maze and Fairy Tale Trail! He made this video explaining the process. Check it out! #cornmaze #cornplanting #familyfarm #farmlife

If all goes according to plan, this field of wheat will be a field full of sunflowers in about 3.5 months! The wheat was planted here to prevent soil erosion over the winter. Sunflowers will be planted in the next month or so.

Perfect evening for a walk to the apple orchard!

Take a ride in the tractor with Matt as he works on getting our fields ready for pumpkins! We will be planting in less than a month! 🎃 He is discing up winter wheat that we planted last fall to prevent soil erosion. #pumpkinpatch🎃 #farming #tractorride #kubotatractor

First cutting of Fescue grass hay of the year! They square baled it and it’s ready for sale! Call Dean at (859) 242-0635.

We wanted to catch up on sharing photos of our paintball shooting gallery progress so far! This new attraction will feature 10 paintball guns that are mounted in place (our final set up will look a little bit different than these photos because we’re not done building yet). The mounts have “stops” preventing them from being turned too far. You’ll get to shoot at tons of fun targets out in the field. It is a safe, and super fun attraction that we are SO EXCITED about!

*MYSTERY ATTRACTION REVEAL!* Well, the news it out!!! We are officially adding a paintball shooting gallery for this fall! We purchased 10 paintball guns that we will mount in this structure. We’re planning lots of super cool “targets” that we think will take this attraction to this next level. This will be safe and fun for all ages! Thank you everyone for sharing in our excitement!#paintball #farmfun #fallfestival #familyfarm

Soooo....what HAS Matt been up to?? What is this new addition?! We know you’ve been wondering and we’re finally ready to spill the tea. Our email subscribers will be the first to know this afternoon! Comment “email” if you need the link!

Things are starting to happen in the orchard! (Update as of 3/29.)

👀 Sneak peak of a NEW ATTRACTION for this fall! What do you think it could be? #familyfarm #pumpkinpatch #fallfun #FamilyFun

We’re happy to share that we finished planting Caroline’s apple orchard on March 14th! Here are some photos of the process that we haven’t posted yet. What a learning experience! We’ve planted four apple varieties that will hopefully begin producing in about three years: 🍎 Crimson Crisp 🍎 Fuji 🍎 Granny Smith 🍎 Ruby Rush

Coming at you with an EXCITING 🍎Apple Orchard Update🍎 today! We’ve had a big week getting all our trees planted. In this video Matt shares about the varieties we chose and some of the process. #appleorchard #familyfarm

Here’s a re-cap of our Apple Orchard progress so far! 🍎 Support trellis posts are set. 🍎 140 holes are marked. 🍎 Matt got about half of the holes dug yesterday. 🍎 Our 140 dwarf trees will be delivered today!!! We are so thankful for the absolutely gorgeous, dry weather for planting the trees this week! #appleorchard

Matt has been busy getting ready to plant Caroline’s apple trees this week. First he had to pound 24 posts to create the trellis that will support the trees - that was a big job that took a full day of work! Shoutout to Hagen for all the help! Next up, digging 140 holes. 😳 #appleorchard #familyfarm

Friday we attended the Gold Medal food expo in Sharonville, OH. The kids look forward to this every year - I think you can see why! 😂😂😂 We got to see different concession equipment and supplies in action at this event. We have a new food addition in mind for this year….hopefully we can make it happen. 🤞 This coming week is a HUGE, exciting week for us! Our apple trees should be arriving on Tuesday and we will plant them Wednesday! We’ll share the whole process with you here. Stay tuned.

🍎Apple Orchard Update🍎 Matt has a cool story about the support posts for our orchard - you won’t believe where they came from! Since we are planting dwarf trees, they require a trellis system to keep them stable and to support the weight of the fruit in the future. Three strands of high-tensile wire will be run from post to post and the trees will be clipped to them. #appleorchard #storytime #familyfarm

It’s calving season! This sweet heifer was born two days ago here at the farm. She is a cross between Debbie’s Charolais cow and a black Angus bull. Isn’t her unique gray color gorgeous?! #beefcattle #calvingseason #charolais

🍎Apple Orchard Update!🍎 How would you guys like more video content from us?! We’re going to try to get better about that! Today Matt is sharing an update about the apple trees we will be planting this spring including where and when we will be planting them! (Side note, when he says we sold our cows he’s talking about himself. His parents Dean and Debbie still have lots of dairy and beef cattle here on the farm.) 😄 #appletrees #appleorchard

🍎BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!🍎 If you got the email newsletter that we sent out at the end of January, you’ve probably already heard this exciting news! Recently we found out that our county offers a grant for 4-H aged kids to receive partial funding for special horticulture / agriculture projects. Our daughter, Caroline, applied for the grant and was accepted! ​ She will be using this grant (with dad & mom’s help) to start a u-pick apple orchard here at our farm!!! We’ve been dreaming about growing apples for a while (this is actually a very common request that we get), and it seems it’s finally all coming together. We plan to plant 140 dwarf apple trees this spring. From what we understand, they should be ready to harvest in 3-4 years if all goes well. We should be getting the trees and planting them within the next couple weeks to a month. We’re excited to share the whole experience with you! Stay tuned!

Hello! We’re here with a little update on what we’ve been up to lately. This time of year we are in education and planning mode! If you read our latest newsletter you know we had an agritourism conference coming up. We attended the 4 day NAFDMA conference in Lexington, KY this past Friday - Monday. Matt and I LOVE attending these kind of things and we are thrilled to say we learned so much and gained so much inspiration for our 2025 season and beyond. So what’s this alll about??? NAFDMA is an organization that stands for “North American Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association”. The membership includes hundreds of other pumpkin patches, orchards, Christmas tree farms, farmers markets, flower farms, and more! The 4 day conference was broken down like this: Day 1: Farm tour day! We loaded up on tour buses and visited 3 different farms for behind-the-scenes tours of their operations. Day 2: Expo day! We got to see all the cool products that 130 vendors had to offer. We saw everything from gem mining, apple cannons, canned goods, lotions, giant slides, and jump pillows to farm consultants, insurance agents, and more. It was tons of fun and we got lots of great ideas! Days 3 and 4: Education days! Each day was filled with of 8 different educational sessions to choose from multiple hours of the day. There were so many great speakers offering valuable information that we can apply to make our farm even better! We’re excited to make 2025 the best year yet! Thanks for following along on our journey!

*CLOSED FOR THE SEASON* Thank you everyone for our most incredible season ever!!!! We are now closed until next fall. Your support of our family business keeps us going year after year! We also want to give a big shout out to our amazing staff who worked so hard with us all fall to make Country Pumpkins the special place that it is. Truly, we are blessed. ❤ Rest and family time are in our future......won’t be long until we start planning for 2025. ❤ Blessings, The Colson Family 📸: Cindy Dover Photography, LLC

📱LAST CALL📱 This is the FINAL DAY of our 2024 season!!! We will be open tonight, Thursday, October 31st from 4pm -7pm rain or shine.... 🎃 All pumpkins and gourds are BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! 🌻 Our sunflower field will be open. We still have lots of beautiful blooms! 🐐 Our petting zoo, play areas, and corn mazes will be open. 🚜 If the weather cooperates, we may run a hayride. We’ll post an update later. 🥨 This is your last chance to come get a Harvest Caramel Apple Slushie, Oakley’s Fish Pond Slushie, soft pretzel, and hot mini donuts until next fall!

Just took a walk to see the sunflowers on this gorgeous, 78 degree October 30th! Isn’t it crazy?? The flowers look so good and never cease to amaze me. This field has thrived through drought (last rainfall was a month ago) and multiple frosts! 🌻Tonight may be your last chance to see the sunflowers this year so don’t miss out! We are open tonight (Wednesday) 4-7. A corn maze ticket or Fun Pass gets you access to this field plus 2 u-pick blooms.🌻 We also stopped and saw the zinnias we had earlier this year. They didn’t survive the frost but you can see they were still in full bloom at the time - they bloomed for almost 4 months! You can expect to see WAY more zinnias here next year. We are officially obsessed. 😍

What a beautiful day! We will be open 4-7pm tonight (Wednesday). A hayride will run at 5:30 and a u-pick hayride at 6! If you have Fun Passes you can use them tonight. Also, our sunflower field is still open!!! 📸: Cheyenne Saylor

“Time is running out, people!” as our 5 year old Maddie says. We found this video she recorded all on her own yesterday and about passed out! 🤣🤣🤣 Hilarious! As a reminder, here is our schedule for the remainder of the season: Tuesday 10/29: CLOSED Wednesday 10/30: Open 4-7pm Thursday 10/31: Open 4-7pm (weather permitting) We will run a hayride at 5:30pm and a u-pick hayride at 6pm each of the nights we are open. All play areas, petting zoo, corn mazes, etc will be open. Then that’s it! Our season ends “very, very, very soon” on October 31st! P.S. The “Maddie Makes It” she mentions is her little bracelet business. She’s been selling her bracelets in our gift shop this year. ❤️

Happy Monday! First we want to say a BIG thank you for how you all showed up for our final weekend! It was amazing and we are so grateful! ❤ Next, we want to fill you in on our plans for our final days of this 2024 season...... Monday 10/28 (tonight), Wednesday 10/30, and Thursday 10/31 we will open 4-7pm. Please note, 10/31 is weather permitting as there is currently a high chance of rain. We’ll keep you posted. 🎃We will have ALL our activities open including our petting zoo, play areas, corn mazes, hayrides, barrel trains, AND u-pick pumpkin hayrides! Hayrides will run at 5:30pm on those nights and u-pick pumpkin hayrides will run at 6pm. U-pick hayrides will remain at their sale price of $9 each! 🌻IN ADDITION, our sunflower field will be open each of these nights! You can access the field with a corn maze ticket or Fun Pass. Two u-pick blooms are included!

The final Sunday of our 2024 season is here! We’re open 12-5 today! We have our u-pick pumpkin hayrides $2 off and we still have our Apple Donut Sundaes this weekend only! 😍

In case you missed it, our sunflower field will be OPEN this weekend. It looks beautiful!!! Access to this field is included with a corn maze ticket or Fun Pass and includes 2 u-pick blooms! Saturday: Open 10-7 Sunday: Open 12-5

*FINAL WEEKEND* Can you believe it, it’s our final weekend of the season!!! We have a full, exciting weekend ahead with glorious fall weather! HIGHLIGHTS: 🏷SALE: This Saturday and Sunday are U-Pick Pumpkin Hayrides are $2 off! See comments for details. 🍭Our Candy Express Free Barrel Train + Candy will be Saturday from 2-3pm. 🎨The Facepainting Mermaid will be here doing airbrush face painting on Saturday from 1-4pm. 🎃U-Pick Pumpkin Hayrides will run at 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 3:30pm, and 5pm on Saturday and at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm on Sunday. 🌻Our Sunflower Field will be open on Saturday and Sunday!!!!! Access to the field is included with a corn maze ticket or Fun Pass. Includes 2 u-pick blooms. 🍦We have a special treat for this weekend only! Apple Donut Sundae’s will be available for $6 each while supplies last. HOURS: Open 2pm - 7pm on Friday Open 10am - 7pm Saturday Open 12pm - 5pm Sunday

Who says the kids should get all the treats? Grown-ups deserve something special too! We’ve been hard at work in the kitchen creating this 🍎Apple Donut Sundae🍎 which will be available this weekend while supplies last! Scoops of vanilla ice cream are topped with warm apple pie filling, 4 warm cinnamon sugar donut holes, and whipped cream. OH. MY. WORD. It’s SO delicious and tastes like warm apple pie with ice cream! $6 each.

RUN, don’t walk to book your birthday party for our FINAL weekend of the season! We have a few party spaces available for Saturday 10/26 and Sunday 10/27. Call Shelley at 859-905-9656 for more information or send us a message. 📸: No Blink Pictures

*CANDY EXPRESS FREE BARREL TRAIN + CANDY* Bring your kids Saturday, October 26th to ride the Candy Express Barrel Train! From 2:00 - 3:00pm on Saturday we will be offering FREE barrel train rides and free candy along the barrel train path for kids 12 and under! The children will board the barrel train (aka The Candy Express) and our staff will hand out candy and treats at various stops around the farm. Wear your costumes! While you’re here (we’ll be open 10am - 7pm Saturday) come take a hayride ($5), play on Pumpkin Ridge ($8 includes petting zoo, giant slides, Fairy Tale Trail, Mini Maze, photo spots, and Loft Indoor Play Area), or venture through our corn maze ($5)! Our concession stand will also be open with hamburgers, chicken tenders, funnel cakes, soft pretzels and cheese, hot mini donuts, homemade kettle corn, fudge, fresh-squeezed lemonade, hot spiced cider, iced coffee, and more.

🎃*SALE* This weekend our U-Pick Pumpkin Hayrides are $2 off! For just $9 a person you can take a hayride + pick a pumpkin right out of the patch while supplies last. 🕛In addition, we are adding u-pick times to make them more convenient. U-Pick Hayrides will run at 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 3:30pm, and 5pm on Saturday and at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm on Sunday. 🎟$9 U-Pick tickets can be purchased at our ticket counter. Family members who do not want to pick a pumpkin can ride along for $5 each. Also, if you have already pre-purchased Fun Passes or Hayride tickets, you can upgrade to a u-pick ticket for $4 per pumpkin. 📍Country Pumpkins is located in Dry Ridge, KY just 10 minutes off of I-75 between Cincinnati and Lexington.

*ANNOUNCEMENT* It’s such a pretty day that we’ve decided to run a hayride at 5:30pm and a u-pick pumpkin hayride at 6pm tonight! The farm will be open 4-7pm. Hayrides are $5 per person. U-Pick Hayrides are $11 for each person picking a pumpkin and $5 for family members not picking a pumpkin.

Did you know we are open on week nights through October 31st? Here are the activities we have available on weeknights: (PLUS on Fridays after 5pm we also run hayrides and barrel train rides, just like the weekends.) 🎃Pumpkin Ridge - ($8 per person: includes Giant slides, corn boxes, petting zoo, Fairy tale trail, mini maze, hillbilly hoops, pumpkin house photo spot, loft indoor play area, and New adventure barn) 🎃Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher - ($5 for 4 shots) 🎃Kiddie corn Maze - (free) 🎃4 Acre Corn Maze - ($5 per person) 🎃Turbo Slide - ($2 to slide all day) 🎃Kiddie Play Village - (free) 🎃Pumpkins, Corn Shocks, and Straw for Sale 🎃Gift Shop 🎃Limited Concessions - (soft pretzels, hot mini donuts, slushies, hot cider, nachos, drinks)

Open Sunday 12-5! Make sure you get some of our homemade kettle corn and other yummy treats while you’re here! All our activities will be open including u-pick pumpkin hayrides at 1, 2, 3, and 4 today!

Thank you for an amazing Saturday! We appreciate you all so much! We have an important sunflower update. We will NOT have our sunflower field open tomorrow, Sunday 10/20. We are SO sorry about this! The blooms have been slower to open than we anticipated and we had a big turn out today. As a result the field is currently picked clean. There are MANY more blooms to come, they just need more time. We apologize for any inconvenience. We try our best to plan and promote but sometimes things don’t go as planned, especially when you’re waiting for a flower to bloom. 🤪 We’ll keep you posted on the sunflower field re-opening. Should definitely be in good shape by next weekend if not before. Our fall festival will be open Sunday 12-5 as usual!

It’s a BEAUTIFUL day to visit the pumpkin patch! Come see us from 10am - 7pm at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! Make your fall memories at a real working farm in the country this year. ❤️ 🚜Hayrides 🌽Corn Mazes 🐐Petting Zoo 🎟️Play areas 🛝Slides 🌽Corn Boxes 🚂Barrel Train ✨Fairy Tale Trail 🎃Pumpkins 🛍️Gift Shop 🍿Yummy treats And lots more! See link in comments for pricing info. 📸: Ben Sparrow

*THIS WEEKEND + SUNFLOWERS* It’s going to be a beautiful weekend at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! Come make your fall memories with us on our 250 acre farm. We’ve got hayrides, barrel train rides, corn mazes, play areas, petting zoo, u-pick pumpkins (at select times - see below), pre-picked pumpkins, gift shop, and delicious concessions. The Facepainting Mermaid will be here Saturday 12-3pm. We’ve got a 🌻sunflower🌻 update for you! As you can see in the picture, our third and final field is about 5-10% in bloom as of Thursday night. They are doing amazing holding up through these cold, frosty nights we’ve had! We plan to open the sunflower field starting Saturday, 10/19. Please be aware that there will be a limited number of blooms to start the weekend with more blooming each day that goes by. To access the field you must have either a $5 corn maze ticket OR a Fun Pass. Each ticket includes 2 u-pick blooms. Here’s a full list of our hours for this weekend: 🎃 FRIDAY 10/18: Fall Festival will be open 2pm - 7pm (hayrides & barrel trains begin at 5pm) 🎃 SATURDAY 10/19: Fall Festival & Sunflower Field open 10am - 7pm. The Facepainting Mermaid will be here 12pm - 3pm (airbrush face painting is $5 or $10 depending upon design). U-Pick hayrides will run at 11am, 2pm, and 5pm. 🎃 SUNDAY 10/20: Fall Festival & Sunflower Field open 12pm - 5pm. U-Pick hayrides will run at 1pm, and 3pm.

It was a frosty, foggy morning here at the farm. We’ve had 3 schools here today for field trips! This evening we will be open from 4-7pm with our petting zoo, play areas, corn mazes, and Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher!

Fall fun is in full swing at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! Come experience the best season of the year on a real 250 acre farm complete with pumpkins, hayrides, petting zoo, corn mazes, delicious food, and more! We’re located just 10 minutes off I-75 in Northern Kentucky. HOURS THIS WEEKEND: Friday: Open 2pm - 7pm Saturday: Open 10am - 7pm Sunday: Open 12pm - 5pm 🎟The Pumpkin Ridge Pass includes our petting zoo and lots of outdoor and indoor play areas for $8 per person! Hayrides and barrel train rides can be added onto this pass if you wish. 🎟OR for the full experience, we recommend the $22 Fun Pass wristband which includes all the Pumpkin Ridge activities plus a hayride, barrel train, Turbo Slide 4 Acre Corn Maze, and 4 shots from the Chunkin’ Pumpkin Launcher! (This is a $6 savings over buying all these activities individually.) FAQ’s: Q. Do you accept credit / debit cards? A. YES, we accept cards and cash at all registers. Q. Are kids under a certain age free? A. YES, children under 2 are free. Everyone age 2 and up is the same price. Q. Can I bring my dog? A. YES, well-behaved dogs on a leash are welcome.

We’d like to take a moment to reintroduce ourselves and tell our story..... Country Pumpkins was started by Dean and Debbie Colson along with some other relatives in 2000 as a simple roadside pumpkin sales business. By 2010 we grew to a complete fall festival with hayrides, corn mazes, etc. Matt and Shelley and their children joined the business in 2012. Each year since, we have been working hard to reinvest in the business and add new activities. It has become almost a year round labor of love preparing for each fall season. We love watching families come to our farm to make their fall memories......for many it’s become a family tradition and it brings us SO much joy to be part of that. Thank you for visiting us. When you choose Country Pumpkins, you are helping support a real family and helping us keep this farm going for many years to come. Thanks for your support, The Colson Family 📸Thank you to Cindy Dover Photography, LLC for the updated family photo!

WOW! What a weekend!!! Thank you all so much for choosing our farm for your fall memories! ❤️🎃❤️ Today (Monday 10/14) is our last day with *special fall break hours*. We’ll be open 2-7pm and will have all our activities open including hayrides and barrel train rides! 📸: Ben Sparrow

We have an AMAZING line up of vendors here today from 10-4 for our Fall Vendor Fair! Come see us! Our fall festival is open 10-7 with hayrides, barrel train, petting zoo, corn mazes, play areas, pumpkins at more at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! www.countrypumpkinsky.com

We’ve got a BEAUTIFUL day ahead! We will be open 2-9pm tonight for Fall Fun Night! Here are all the details…. Create your own fall date night, church event, family outing, etc under the stars here at Country Pumpkins! Choose from the following activities: Pumpkin Ridge ($8 - includes petting zoo and play areas. Open 2 - 7pm so plan accordingly.) Hayride ($5 - run at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm) Corn Maze ($5 - open 2 - 9pm) Pumpkin Carving Contest @ 7 - 8:30pm ($12 per entry) Bonfire (free - available 6 - 9pm) Concessions open starting at 5pm. We will be serving burgers, chicken tenders, soft pretzels, nachos, homemade kettle corn, fresh squeezed lemonade, slushies, hot mini donuts, funnel cakes, and iced coffee!

We’re open tonight (Thursday, 10/10) from 4pm - 7pm! We will have all our activities open tonight including hayrides and barrel train rides. Come see us!

*THIS WEEKEND* Start planning your weekend now! We’ve got lots of opportunities for you to come make memories with your loved ones. 🔥 Friday, 10/11 from 2pm - 9pm is Fall Fun Night with a free bonfire and lots of farm fun! 👛 Saturday, 10/12 from 10am - 4pm is our Fall Vendor Fair with 45 vendors! Free admission and parking. Our fall festival is open 10am - 7pm. 🎃 Sunday, 10/13 from 12pm - 5pm all our fall festival activities will be open. One of our very favorite things is seeing pictures from your visit here and / or hearing why YOU love Country Pumpkins! Share your memories with us in the comments below! ❤Pssst, watch for our email at 11am today to learn how enter to win FREE Fun Passes!❤

Kids on fall break? 🥳Fall Fun Night🥳 is THIS FRIDAY night 2pm - 9pm! 🔥We’ll have all our usual fall festival activities and yummy concessions + a bonfire and pumpkin carving contest! We’re staying open until 9pm so you have more time to enjoy the fun! 🎟 $8 Pumpkin Ridge Passes (petting zoo and play areas) and $22 Fun Passes (all activities) can be used on this night. OR you can purchase individual activity tickets if you want to customize your experience: hayride ($5), corn maze ($5), barrel train ($3), Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher ($5 for 4 shots). The bonfire is FREE. Pumpkin Carving is an optional activity available for $12. 🎃Pumpkin carving contest details: Cost is $12 per entry and includes one carving pumpkin and one pumpkin carving kit ($16 value for $12!). You can purchase one per family, one per couple, or one per person - you choose! We will provide table cloths and a designated pumpkin carving area for you to create your designs. Afterward, we will post photos of all the entries on our social media and take a vote. The winning pumpkin carver will receive a $50 cash prize! ***Please pre-purchase your pumpkin carving tickets so we can have the supplies ready for you! Let us know if you need the link.***

Good morning, friends! We wanted to say a big THANK YOU for coming to see us this past weekend! We know there are events going on at many other places, and the fact that you chose to come here means the world to us!!! We also want to thank the many of you who stop us during the day to share a kind word about your experience here at the farm. ❤ You may not realize it, but if you could also take a moment and leave us a review on Google (let us know if you need the link), that actually helps us a TON with the algorithm which helps people find us on the internet. TONIGHT, Monday 10/7 we will be open 4-7pm and the weather is going to be PERFECT! High of 69 and sunny today! Since it’s fall break for a lot of kiddos we will be offering hayrides and barrel train rides tonight in addition to our normal weeknight activities. Rides will begin about 5pm and run until 6:30pm. We will have our delicious slushies, hot mini donuts, soft pretzels, nachos, and drinks available at our concession stand if you need a snack. Ticket info: 🎟The $8 Pumpkin Ridge Pass includes our petting zoo and lots of play areas. 🎟We will also have our $22 Fun Pass available tonight which includes all Pumpkin Ridge activities, plus the hayride, barrel train, turbo slide 4 acre corn maze, and 4 shots from the Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher! 🎟 You can also buy individual activity tickets if you don’t want to buy the bundled passes. Visit our website link in our bio for all the info!

Open Sunday 12-5pm!!! We hope to see you on this beautiful day!

Good morning and happy Saturday!!! We’re ready for you on this BEAUTIFUL day!!! Open Saturday 10am - 7pm and we’ve got loads of fall fun and delicious treats! Hayrides, u-pick pumpkins, barrel trains, corn mazes, play areas, giant slides, Fairy Tale Trail, corn boxes and MORE! Be sure to stop by our kettle corn booth for a FREE kettle corn sample! AND, we’re serving iced coffee for the first time today! 🎉Fresh-squeezed lemonade, funnel cakes, hot mini donuts, soft pretzels, fudge, burgers, chicken tenders, Slushies and other yummy treats will also be available. We’ve got pumpkins, mums, gourds, corn stalks, and straw for sale for your fall decorating.

*FALL BREAK* We know you’ve been waiting for this info! Here are our special Fall Break hours. On these days all of our activities will be open just like weekends (which means you’ll be able to use Fun Passes on these days as well.) 🚜Hayrides will begin approximately one hour after opening and end 30 minutes prior to closing. A concession menu of soft pretzels, hot mini donuts, slushies, nachos, fudge, and hot and cold drinks will be available. 🔥On Friday, 10/11 we are having a bonfire, pumpkin carving contest, and full concessions in addition to being open late until 9pm for our Fall Fun Night! Ready more about it at our link in the comments.

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is the Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher! Launch mini pumpkins or gourds at steel targets in a field! It’s so much fun for all ages. Pssst.....it also makes for a great date night activity. The Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher costs $5 for 4 shots. It’s also included in our Fun Pass! Open 6 days a week. Closed Tuesdays.

*FUN PASS GIVEAWAY* It’s back! We are giving away 1 FREE Fun Pass to the first 200 teachers and the first 200 military & first responders who sign up on our forms. 🎉Link in bio!🎉 Country Pumpkins fall festival is located on our 250 acre dairy and pumpkin farm in Dry Ridge, KY. Each fall we open our farm to the public for good old-fashioned family fun like hayrides, corn mazes, petting zoo, pumpkins, delicious treats, and more! We are grateful to be able to give back to our community through this giveaway again this year! Please tag your friends who this applies to so they don’t miss out.

*THIS WEEKEND* After last weekend’s rain, we are more excited than ever for this weekend’s beautiful weather!!! While we had some spare time this past weekend, we created a menu item we’ve wanted to add for a long time - ICED COFFEE! Available starting this Saturday and Sunday at the kettle corn / lemonade booth. Choose from French Vanilla, Caramel, and Pumpkin Spice flavors! 🎃 Friday, 10/4: Open 2 - 7pm. Hayrides and barrel trains begin at 5pm. (Limited concessions) 🎃 Saturday, 10/5: Open 10am - 7pm. Come get a free kettle corn sample at our kettle corn booth from 10am - 1pm. U-Pick Hayrides run at 11am, 2pm, and 5pm. 🎃 Sunday, 10/6: Open 12pm - 5pm. U-Pick Hayrides run at 1pm & 3pm.

🎈It’s party time at the pumpkin patch!🎈 We just added more party spots on Saturdays and Sundays since we were getting booked up! These new spots are in our Red Barn picnic shelter. We have limited availability left in our Birthday Shelter as well. Shelter rental is $35 for 2 hours in a shelter space that seats 25 people. Admission into the party area is free for your guests. Popular party add-ons are the Turbo Slide, Barrel Train, Pumpkin Ridge, and Hayrides! Activity tickets can be purchased the day of your event or online in advance. Check availability in the Birthday Shelter: https://countrypumpkinsky.mazeplay.com/Products/shelter-rental—birthday-shelter Check availability in the Red Barn Picnic Shelter: https://countrypumpkinsky.mazeplay.com/Products/shelter-rental—red-barn

We need your help!!! Please comment below with your area’s fall break dates. We will likely have special fall break hours and activities and want to plan accordingly. Thank you!

*NEW EVENT* Fall Fun Night will be on Friday, October 11th from 2-9pm. Create your own fall date night, church event, family outing, etc under the stars here at Country Pumpkins! Choose from the following activities: Pumpkin Ridge ($8 - includes petting zoo and play areas. Open 2 - 7pm so plan accordingly.) Hayride ($5 - run at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm) Corn Maze ($5 - open 2 - 9pm) Pumpkin Carving Contest* @ 7 - 8:30pm ($12 per entry) Bonfire (free - available 6 - 9pm) Concessions open starting at 5pm. We will be serving burgers, chicken tenders, soft pretzels, nachos, homemade kettle corn, fresh squeezed lemonade, slushies, hot mini donuts, funnel cakes, AND and new secret menu item that we will reveal later this week! *Pumpkin Carving Contest details: We are so excited to host our first ever pumpkin carving contest! Your $12 entry fee includes one carving pumpkin and one pumpkin carving kit. You can purchase one per family, one per couple, or one per person - you choose! We will provide table cloths and a designated pumpkin carving area for you to create your designs. Afterward, we will post photos of all the entries on our social media and take a vote. The winning pumpkin carver will receive a $50 cash prize! ***Please pre-purchase your pumpkin carving tickets so we can have the supplies ready for you! Message us if you want the link!

*VENDORS NEEDED* We moved our Fall Vendor Fair to Saturday, October 12th! As a result, we have a number of vendors not able to attend our new date and have about 20 spaces available. If you’re looking for a last minute event, please register at our link in bio. We’re specifically looking for vendors in the following categories: - Woodworking - Pottery - Greeting cards - Art - Trucker hat bar - Tie dye - Plants - and other unique vendors! Sorry, crochet is full. No food or beverage vendors, please.

REMINDER: We are closed today, Sunday, September 29th. We plan to reopen Monday from 4-7 with all activities except for hayrides and barrel train rides!

*CLOSED SUNDAY 9/29.* Due to continued showers tomorrow and very muddy conditions, we have made the decision to close tomorrow, 9/29 as well. We’ve received almost 5 inches of rain so far. It’s such a bummer and we’re sorry to disappoint anyone! 😭 Also, this rain and wind destroyed our sunflower field that was in bloom. Scroll to the end of our photos to see a little good news…we have a 3rd field of sunflowers not yet blooming that benefitted from the rain. These photos show some of the wind damage. All minimal though setting the Hillbilly Hoops game back up took a couple tractors and some effort. Also, it seems that our new Adventure Barn sign has gone on an adventure. 🤣 It’s blown away and so far we can’t find it. If you’re local and find a 5’x6’ orange banner in your field, let us know.

REMINDER: We are CLOSED today, Saturday, 9/28! Our Fall Vendor Fair has been rescheduled to Saturday, October 12th. We will make a decision about Sunday later today. We still need to fully assess wind damage from yesterday and do some clean up. Thankfully, the damage seems to be minimal so far....mostly involving blown over benches, signs, fence, etc. Right now we know Hillbilly Hoops was blown over which is mind-blowing! Fortunately all these things can be fixed fairly quickly. Still need to get into our corn mazes and check them out. Thank you for your patience and support. This is certainly not how we wanted this weekend to go.

ATTN: Our farm will be CLOSED tonight, Friday 9/27 and Saturday, 9/28. We will wait to make a decision about Sunday. Hopefully the weather will improve!

*IMPORTANT* We have a SAD update about our Fall Vendor Fair. 😢 We just made the decision to 👉reschedule👈 our Fall Vendor Fair due to rain. It was originally planned for this Saturday, but now we are moving it to Saturday, October 12th. As we’re sure you know, a large hurricane in the Gulf is set to head our way and bring rain into our area this weekend. While we are thankful for the rain, the timing is tough! We want to give our vendors the best chance at success and our customers a fun experience. We greatly apologize to those of you who had already made plans to come and shop this Saturday. Please help us out by sharing this post so we can get the word out! Also, we currently plan to keep our farm open this Saturday and Sunday.....who knows, the weather could clear up! We will be sure to post any changes here. Our prayers are with everyone in the path of this massive storm. #HurricaneHelene

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our 4 Acre Corn Maze! Meander your way through our maze full of twists and turns this fall season! Looking for more of a challenge? Find all our hidden stations inside the maze and you’ll get to launch a pumpkin from our Chunkin’ Pumpkin launcher for free! The 4 Acre Corn Maze is $5 per person, OR included in our Fun Pass! This weekend your ticket also includes access to our sunflower field and 2 u-pick sunflowers. Open 6 days a week. Closed Tuesdays. Not up to a maze this big? We also have 2 smaller kiddie corn mazes on the farm! 📸: Cindy Dover Photography, LLC

Shoutout to Matt, our tour guide extraordinaire (and one of our owners)! He will be super busy from now through October leading lots of field trips and giving cow milking demonstrations. If you haven’t booked your fall field trip yet, we still have some availability for schools and homeschool days! Comment if you need more info.

*FALL VENDOR FAIR* Check out some of the amazing items our vendors will be selling at our Fall Vendor Fair this Saturday, 9/28 from 10am - 4pm! Admission and parking at this event are free. Keep an eye on our stories this week where we will be sharing even more info about our vendors! ⭐Pssst.....we are having an email subscriber only CASH giveway this week! Get on our email list by Wednesday at 11am for info on how to win some shopping money! (link in profile)⭐ The Fall Vendor Fair is held annually at our farm, Country Pumpkins, in Dry Ridge, KY just a 10 minute drive off I-75 located between Lexington and Cincinnati. We’ll also have all our fall festival activities open from 10am to 7pm: hayrides, pumpkins, petting zoo, slides, barrel train rides, corn mazes, play areas, photo spots, and lots more! Visit https://www.countrypumpkinsky.com/fall-festival-corn-maze for activity pricing information. Hungry? Be sure to stop by Country Eats & Sweets for lots of yummy treats! Funnel cakes, kettle corn, fresh-squeezed lemonade, hot mini donuts, fudge, apple cider slushies, soft pretzels, hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken tenders.

❤ Make plans to attend our annual Fall Vendor Fair happening THIS Saturday, September 28th from 10am - 4pm at Country Pumpkins in Dry Ridge, KY! Free admission and parking. 🎃 It’s the best of both worlds…..we will have 50 awesome vendors and crafters you can shop AND loads of good old-fashioned family fun at our fall festival which includes hayrides, pumpkins, petting zoo, slides, barrel train rides, corn mazes, play areas, photo spots, and lots more! 🍯 Come support these talented vendors who have been working hard preparing for this show. You can expect to see items like jewelry, shirts, pottery, tumblers, soaps & lotions, signs, home decor, honey, jam, crocheted items, and LOTS more!

Open 12-5 on Sunday! It’s the perfect day to grab a fresh-squeezed lemonade or an ice cold slushie! We were going to put music over this video but decided the sounds were just too fun to cover up! 🍋

*THIS WEEKEND* at Country Pumpkins! Guess what!? We’ve got a little surprise for you! 🌻Our second field of sunflowers has just begun blooming! You will be able to access our sunflower field starting this Saturday with a corn maze ticket or Fun Pass. Includes 2 u-pick blooms. Please note: this field is very different from our first field this year. There are lots of weeds among the sunflowers and because of the drought these plants only reached about 2.5 feet tall. We will have a limited number blooming this weekend, but lots more should open through next week into next weekend. Here’s the schedule for this weekend: 🎃 Friday open 2pm - 7pm. Hayrides and barrel trains run after 5pm. 🐄 Saturday open 10am - 7pm with all our activities and concessions. It’s Got Milk Day so we will be giving away free cider slushie floats to our first 100 guest and doing free cow milking demonstrations and calf bottle feeding between 11am - 2pm. 🌻 Sunday open 12pm - 5pm with all our activities and concessions.

We’re giving away FREE cider slushie floats to our first 100 guests this Saturday, 9/21!!! 🐄 We’ll be open 10am - 7pm on Saturday with all our fall festival activities. It’s also Got Milk Day here at our farm. In addition to the free floats, we will have free cow milking demonstrations and calf bottle feeding from 11am - 2pm. This cider slushie float is a *EXCLUSIVE ITEM* we created just for this special day! It features 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with apple cider slush, whipped cream, and caramel drizzle. It’s SO delicious! Don’t miss it.

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our brand new Adventure Barn! Over this past winter and spring, we took our ugly, run-down hay shed and turned into this beautiful new attraction! It features a large corn box, guess who style games, wall ball, giant chalkboard, and a cute farm hopper area with a beautiful mural! The Adventure Barn is the pretty red barn you’ll pass on your way to our parking lot. It’s included with our Pumpkin Ridge Pass and Fun Pass! Open 6 days a week. Closed Tuesdays.

Coming up this Saturday, 9/21 is GOT MILK DAY! You might be wondering, “What the heck is that!?” So glad you asked, we’ll explain. 😀 Did you know our family has been milking dairy cows since 1947 and currently offers a raw milk herd share (which is full)? It’s important to us to honor that heritage and take a special day each season to offer FREE cow milking demonstrations to the public. Usually only our field trip kiddos get to see this educational demo, but on Got Milk Day, we open it up to everyone! You will also get the chance to bottle feed a calf for free - which is such a sweet experience! If you know our family, you know that we are lovers of ICE CREAM! This year on Got Milk Day we have created a very special, limited-edition, cider float and will be giving it away to our first 100 guests. It features two scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with our apple cider slush and a drizzle of caramel sauce to take it over the top! In the words of Brenda our friend, cousin, and concession helper........it’s the best thing we’ve ever made! HA! It’s seriously so good! ​Thank you to Venture Dairy for sponsoring these free cider floats! Our 15-year-old nephew, Caleb Lipps, is carrying on the family dairy tradition and is pasteurizing and selling milk in the Shelbyville, KY area! Check out his Venture Dairy Facebook page for more info.

*Group Events & Group Pricing* We want to host your group this fall! So far this year we are already working with the following groups on creating memorable events during the most beautiful time of the year: ⛪ Churches 🎉 Youth groups 🏫 Private schools 🚜 Businesses 🏡 Realtors We still have availability in September and October for day time and evening events. Give us a call at 859-905-9656 for more info. You can also visit https://www.countrypumpkinsky.com/farm-corporate-events to learn more about our barn rental and group packages.

*ATTN: TEACHERS* Need a fall field trip for your school? We’ve got you covered! Our field trips include a mix of education, hands-on activities, and fun! Learn about dairy cows and what they eat, watch a cow being milked, bottle feed a calf, pet our goats, and run and play in our play areas! At the end of the field trip kids get to take home a mini pumpkin of their own. ✏️We have some availability left in October. Book your trip online today at the link in our profile.

Open Sunday 12-5pm! Come see us for a Harvest Caramel Apple Slushie and lots of family-friendly fall fun!

Happy Saturday!!! Today we are open 10am - 7pm with all our activities and concessions. The Children’s Entrepreneur Market will be open 11am - 2pm. Come shop 35 kid vendors’ creations! Check out this freshly picked load of decorative pumpkins. They are absolutely stunning! We also have carving pumpkins, gourds, mini pumpkins, straw, mums, and corn shocks for all your fall decorating!

*SPECIAL EVENT* We will be hosting our first ever Children’s Entrepreneur Market tomorrow, Saturday, September 14th from 11 - 2pm. Have you ever been to one?! It’s a market run exclusively by kids ages 5 -17! Come out and support these hard-working kiddos selling everything from quilts, leather pouches, dog treats and bandannas, lip balms, jewelry and more! 🔈Please help us spread the word!🔈 Of course we have to give a shout out to our own young entrepreneur, Caroline’s Creations, who will be set up selling her slime! While you’re here, make sure to stop by our fall festival which will be in full swing with lots of fall activities like hayrides, corn mazes, and petting zoo. We will also have plenty of delicious food available at our concession stand including burgers, chicken tenders, funnel cakes, kettle corn, slushies, fresh-squeezed lemonade and more!

Country Pumpkins | Dry Ridge, KY | countrypumpkinsky.com | Open September 7th - October 31st. Closed Tuesdays.

This week’s *ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK* is our Gift Shop! Make sure you stop by our cute gift shop shed that is filled with fun items like fall decor, Country Home Creations dip & bread mixes, stuffed animals, t-shirts, candles, kids crafts and more! The Gift Shop is located in our pumpkin sales yard and is part of our free admission area! Open 6 days a week. Closed Tuesdays.